Tian Yi (田翼) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Tian Yi as a family member and named individual. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Tian Yi	田翼	Tián Yì
Surname	Tian	田	Tian
Personal name	Tian Yi	田翼	Tian Yi
Given	Yi	翼	Yi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · suishu:072:s0162, suishu:072:s0165
Sex: male
Explicit · suishu:072:s0257
Value: male
Explicit · suishu:072:s0013

Roles

Family Member
Named Individual

Life and dates

Death

Manner: collapsed and died from grief at his mother's death · Other Person Id: Mother of Tian Yi (田翼之母)
Strongly inferred · suishu:072:s0165
Manner: died together with his wife
Explicit · suishu:072:s0257

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: Sui-period biographical context · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618
Derived · suishu:072:s0160, suishu:072:s0161
Source Date: Text: Sui-period chapter context · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0013
Source Date: Text: undated Sui-period biography · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0257

Family

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Child of Mother of Tian Yi (田翼之母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wife of Tian Yi (田翼之妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Type: wife · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: ended

Places and affiliations

Status: unknown · Statement: no one knows where he came from / 不知何許人
Explicit · suishu:072:s0161

Learning and skills

Subject: classical learning / 稽古之學 · Level: lacked
Explicit · suishu:072:s0013

Events and relationships

Kind: filial-care · Role: caregiver · Other Person Id: Mother of Tian Yi (田翼之母) · Actions: personally tended her bedding, ate only when she ate, personally tested her foul discharge when he suspected poisoning
Explicit · suishu:072:s0162, suishu:072:s0163, suishu:072:s0164
Kind: burial · Role: deceased · Burial Type: shared honored burial · Other Person Ids: Mother of Tian Yi (田翼之母), Wife of Tian Yi (田翼之妻)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0165

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: deeply filial, diligent, loving, and indifferent to rank · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:072:s0014, suishu:072:s0015, suishu:072:s0016, suishu:072:s0017
Assessment: died with wife yet won enduring fame · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:072:s0257
Assessment: lacked towering talent but acted naturally and without pretense · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:072:s0013
Assessment: utterly filial and renowned for caring for his mother · Provenance: Mode: historian-narrative
Explicit · suishu:072:s0162

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety · 7 passages

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田翼、郎方貴等，闕稽古之學，無俊偉之才，並能任其自然，情無矯飾。 Men such as Tian Yi and Lang Fanggui had no training in classical learning and no towering gifts, yet each could follow his inborn nature without artifice or pretense.

○田翼 Tian Yi

田翼，不知何許人也。 Tian Yi—no one knows where he came from.

其後母臥疾歲餘，翼親易燥濕，母食則食，母不食則不食。 Later his mother lay ill for more than a year. Yi personally tended her comfort, changing bedding for dry or damp; when his mother ate he ate, when she did not eat he did not eat.

母患暴痢，翼謂中毒，遂親嘗惡。 His mother suffered sudden dysentery. Yi feared poison and personally tasted her foul discharges.

及母終，翼一慟而絕，其妻亦不勝哀而死，鄉人厚共葬之。 When his mother died, Yi cried out once and collapsed. His wife too died of grief, and the villagers gave them a shared burial with full honors.

郎貴昆弟，爭死而身全，田翼夫妻，俱喪而名立，德饒仁懷群盜，德佋義感興王，亦足稱也。 The Lang brothers vied to die yet both lived; the Tian Yi couple died together yet won enduring fame; Derao's benevolence won over a host of bandits, Denian's righteousness moved the emperor who founded the dynasty — each story is praise enough.